The Only Michael Bay Film I Enjoyed

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2005)

Warning!! Spoilers!!! This movie was simply one of the most entertaining action films I've seen since Matrix first appeared. The whole cloning aspect playing off the recent controversy with stem-cell research gives this excellent movie some depth, which most action films lack. Ewan and Scarlett were amazing as usual and quite underrated as usual. The only major errors in this film are its title and lack of good advertising. Its a bad idea to name a movie after something that doesn't exist no matter how philosophically or romantically sophisticated it sounds. And the fact that you fed the audience the entire plot in the trailers was not a good move either: people who think their in utopia find out they're in a dystopian cloning facility and escape and run around in some metropolis that looks like downtown L.A., creating havoc everywhere they go. I loved the highway scene with the falling train wheels, but the whole scenario seemed a bit too matrix-esquire. Nevertheless, this was a great film by an, otherwise, action-addicted director.